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<h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>

<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
 href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>

  <div class=section>
  
    <h3>Server</h3>
 
    <div class=section>

      <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
      Devices may
      be specified either by UID or name.  Fixes <a
       href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
      27</a>.</p>

      <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
      should be a bit lower.  Note though that all the sound output code has
      been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
      that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
      
      <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
      of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
      
    </div>
      
    <h3>Disobedience</h3>

    <div class=section>

      <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
      Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
      &ldquo;Recent&rdquo;, &ldquo;Added&rdquo; and &ldquo;Choose&rdquo; tabs
      to the queue.</p>

    </div>

    <h3>Web Interface</h3>
 
    <div class=section>

      <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
      with punctuation).  (Please see <a
      href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
      
    </div>
      
    <h3>RTP Player</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
      to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
      the man page for details.</p>
      
      <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
      under OS X (as above).</p>
        
    </div>
      
    <h3>General</h3>

    <div class=section>

      <p>IPv6 should now work.  Network address specifications
      (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
      <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
      of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>

      <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
      href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
      5.1.0</a>.</p>

      <p>Various elements of the source code have been
      rationalized.</p>
      
    </div>
    
    <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <table class=bugs>
        <tr>
          <th>ID</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
          <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
          <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
          <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
          <td>Missing stub function</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
          <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
          <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
          <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
          <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
          <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
          <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
        </tr>

        
      </table>
      
    </div>
  </div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>

  <div class=section>

    <h3>Disobedience</h3>

      <div class=section>

        <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
        played.  This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
        various situations.</p>

        <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
        ones.  The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>

        <p>&ldquo;Select all&rdquo; is now no longer available in the choose
        tab.  Instead there is a new &ldquo;Select children&rdquo; option which
        selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>

      </div>

    <h3>Server</h3>

      <div class=section>

        <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half.  You
        can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
        &ldquo;<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>&rdquo; in the config file.</p>

        <p>It is now possible to &lsquo;adopt&rsquo; randomly picked tracks.
        Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
        interface does not.</p>

        <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
        generated by iTunes.</p>
        
      </div>

    <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>

      <div class=section>

        <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>

        <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
         href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>.  The main
        goal is to prohibit <a
         href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>

        <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
        packages.  There are a number of improvements to the Debian
        packaging.</p>

        <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>

        <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>

      </div>

  <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <table class=bugs>
        <tr>
          <th>ID</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
          <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
          <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </div>
  </div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Disobedience</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch.  If this is turned off
      then Disobedience will connect to a local server.  Formerly it would
      always use TCP/IP.</p>

      <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
      Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
      now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
      
    </div>

  <h3>Documentation</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
      <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
      
    </div>

  <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <table class=bugs>
        <tr>
          <th>ID</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
          <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </div>
</div>


<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Disobedience's &ldquo;Login&rdquo; window now works when you are logged
  in.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Disobedience</h3>
  
    <div class=section>
  
      <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>

      <ul>
        
        <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
        greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
        applications.</li>

        <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab.  The initiation
        of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
        half way through entering search terms.</li>

        <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
    
        <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
        be used.</li>

        <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
      a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
      fully up to date.</p>

    </div>
     
  <h3>Server</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
      now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
      behaviour).</p>
      
    </div>
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly.  As part of this,
  <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>.  The configure
  script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Server</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work.  It could be
  restored if there is real demand.</p>
  
  <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
  Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
  changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
  turned on or off).  See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
  commands described in disorder(1).</p>

</div>

<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>

  <ul>

    <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
    eligible for random choice.</li>

    <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
    non-uniform track selection.  See disorder(1) for details.</li>

    <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
    the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
    The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>

    <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
    <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>

  </ul>

</div>

<h4>Web Interface</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>This has been largely rewritten.  The most immediate benefits are:</p>

  <ul>
    
    <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
    includes links to parent directories.</li>
    
    <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
    instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
    redirected to the login page.</li>

  </ul>

  <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
  is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
  less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>

  <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
  possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server.  See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
  <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>

  <p>The web interface is now installed automatically.  If you don't want it,
  use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>.  If you want it in a non-default
  location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
  and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
  
</div>

</div>

<h3>Disobedience</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p>There is now a new user management window.  From here you can add and
  remove users or modify their settings.</p>

  <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
  <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>

</div>

<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
  set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>

</div>

<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>

<div class=section>

  <table class=bugs>
    <tr>
      <th>ID</th>
      <th>Description</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
      <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
      <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
      <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
      <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
      <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
      <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
      subsequently redirected to login page</td>
    </tr>
    
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
      <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
    </tr>
    
  </table>

</div>

</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>

  <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
  syntax it will accept.</p>

  <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>

</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>

<div class=section>
  
  <p><b>Important</b>!  See <a
  href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
  
  <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
  
<div class=section>
  
  <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported.  There is now a bash
  script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
  <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Server</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
  file.</p>
  
  <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
  only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
  
  <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
  
  <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
  configuration command.  This also controls how the volume is set,
  which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
  
  <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Web Interface</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
  allows online registration of new users.  Also it is no longer
  necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
  can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
  
  <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
  
  <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved.  It has
  been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
  7 and Opera 9.</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Disobedience</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
  queue while no track was playing has been fixed.  There is a new
  'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
  
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	57
d8b95785 RK	58	<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
	59	href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
	60
f5fd9a6b RK	61	<h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>
	62
	63	<div class=section>
	64
f207f710 RK	65	<h3>Server</h3>
f207f710 RK	66
f5fd9a6b RK	67	<div class=section>
f5fd9a6b RK	68
fe33cfc0	69	<p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
7cd4dd21	70	Devices may
f207f710	71	be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
f5fd9a6b RK	72	href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
f5fd9a6b RK	73	27</a>.</p>
f207f710	74
f71fc3ab	75	<p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
6762ac8a	76	should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
f71fc3ab RK	77	been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
f71fc3ab RK	78	that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
7cd4dd21 RK	79
	80	<p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
	81	of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
	82
	83	</div>
	84
6a7eb118 RK	85	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	86
	87	<div class=section>
	88
69c456f3 RK	89	<p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
	90	Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
	91	“Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
	92	to the queue.</p>
6a7eb118 RK	93
	94	</div>
	95
7cd4dd21 RK	96	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	97
	98	<div class=section>
53710d44	99
7cd4dd21 RK	100	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	101	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	102	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	103
f207f710 RK	104	</div>
	105
	106	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	107
	108	<div class=section>
	109
	110	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	111	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	112	the man page for details.</p>
	113
	114	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	115	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	116
f5fd9a6b RK	117	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	118
7cd4dd21 RK	119	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	120
7cd4dd21 RK	121	<div class=section>
	122
	123	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	124	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	125	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	126	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	127
2cb9bc5f RK	128	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	129	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	130	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	131
7cd4dd21 RK	132	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	133	rationalized.</p>
	134
	135	</div>
	136
f5fd9a6b RK	137	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	138
	139	<div class=section>
	140
	141	<table class=bugs>
	142	<tr>
	143	<th>ID</th>
	144	<th>Description</th>
	145	</tr>
	146
	147	<tr>
	148	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	149	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	150	</tr>
	151
7cd4dd21 RK	152	<tr>
	153	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	154	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	155	</tr>
6762ac8a RK	156
	157	<tr>
	158	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	159	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	160	</tr>
	161
	162	<tr>
	163	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	164	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	165	</tr>
	166
	167	<tr>
	168	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	169	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	170	</tr>
	171
	172	<tr>
	173	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	174	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	175	</tr>
	176
93379b3d RK	177	<tr>
	178	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	179	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	180	</tr>
	181
6762ac8a RK	182	<tr>
	183	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	184	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	185	</tr>
	186
	187	<tr>
	188	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	189	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	190	</tr>
fa667301 RK	191
	192	<tr>
	193	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	194	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	195	</tr>
	196
7cd4dd21	197
f5fd9a6b RK	198	</table>
	199
	200	</div>
	201	</div>
	202
a0e78d96	203	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	204
	205	<div class=section>
	206
	207	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	208
	209	<div class=section>
	210
	211	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	212	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	213	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	214
	215	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	216	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	217
a0e78d96 RK	218	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	219	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	220	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	221
d8b95785 RK	222	</div>
d8b95785 RK	223
6151ae7e RK	224	<h3>Server</h3>
	225
	226	<div class=section>
	227
	228	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	229	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	230	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	231
ff45af7c RK	232	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	233	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	234	interface does not.</p>
	235
e02f9807 RK	236	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	237	generated by iTunes.</p>
	238
6151ae7e RK	239	</div>
6151ae7e RK	240
10a6c925	241	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	242
	243	<div class=section>
	244
10a6c925 RK	245	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	246
e7eb3a27 RK	247	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	248	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	249	goal is to prohibit <a
	250	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	251
d8b95785	252	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	253	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	254	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	255
74cfbeaa RK	256	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	257
e02f9807	258	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	259
	260	</div>
	261
e02f9807 RK	262	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	263
	264	<div class=section>
	265
	266	<table class=bugs>
	267	<tr>
	268	<th>ID</th>
	269	<th>Description</th>
	270	</tr>
	271
	272	<tr>
	273	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	274	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	275	</tr>
	276	<tr>
	277	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	278	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	279	</tr>
	280	</table>
	281
	282	</div>
d8b95785	283	</div>
b0a578cb	284
eb2a1fe9 RK	285	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	286
	287	<div class=section>
	288
	289	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	290
	291	<div class=section>
	292
	293	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	294	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	295	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	296
	297	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	298	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	299	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	300
	301	</div>
	302
	303	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	304
	305	<div class=section>
	306
	307	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	308	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	309
	310	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	311
	312	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	313
	314	<div class=section>
	315
	316	<table class=bugs>
	317	<tr>
	318	<th>ID</th>
	319	<th>Description</th>
	320	</tr>
	321
	322	<tr>
	323	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	324	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	325	</tr>
	326	</table>
	327
	328	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	329	</div>
	330
	331
68210888 RK	332	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	333
	334	<div class=section>
	335
	336	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	337	in.</p>
	338
	339	</div>
	340
452ad6ba RK	341	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	342
	343	<div class=section>
	344
	345	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	346
	347	<div class=section>
	348
	349	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	350
	351	<ul>
	352
	353	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	354	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	355	applications.</li>
	356
	357	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	358	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	359	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	360
	361	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	362
	363	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	364	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	365
	366	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	367
452ad6ba RK	368	</ul>
	369
	370	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	371	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	372	fully up to date.</p>
	373
	374	</div>
	375
	376	<h3>Server</h3>
	377
	378	<div class=section>
	379
	380	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	381	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	382	behaviour).</p>
	383
	384	</div>
	385	</div>
	386
32918782 RK	387	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	388
	389	<div class=section>
	390
	391	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	392
	393	</div>
	394
f03d4184 RK	395	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	396
	397	<div class=section>
	398
	399	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	400	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	401	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	402
	403	</div>
	404
0ba75c7f	405	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	406
	407	<div class=section>
	408
	409	<h3>Server</h3>
	410
	411	<div class=section>
	412
	413	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	414	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	415
	416	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	417
	418	<div class=section>
	419
	420	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	421	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	422	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	423	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	424	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	425
	426	</div>
	427
	428	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	429
	430	<div class=section>
	431
	432	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	433
	434	<ul>
	435
	436	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	437	eligible for random choice.</li>
	438
	439	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	440	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	441
	442	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	443	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	444	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	445
	446	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	447	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	448
	449	</ul>
	450
	451	</div>
	452
	453	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	454
	455	<div class=section>
	456
	457	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	458
	459	<ul>
	460
	461	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	462	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	463
	464	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	465	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	466	redirected to the login page.</li>
	467
	468	</ul>
	469
470	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
471	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
472	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
473
2eee4b0c RK	474	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	475	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	476	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	477
64ac73bb RK	478	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	479	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	480	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	481	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	482
b0a578cb RK	483	</div>
	484
	485	</div>
	486
	487	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	488
	489	<div class=section>
	490
	491	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	492	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	493
	494	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	495	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	496
	497	</div>
	498
	499	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	500
	501	<div class=section>
	502
	503	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	504	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	505
	506	</div>
	507
	508	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	509
	510	<div class=section>
	511
	512	<table class=bugs>
	513	<tr>
	514	<th>ID</th>
	515	<th>Description</th>
	516	</tr>
	517
	518	<tr>
	519	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	520	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	521	</tr>
	522
	523	<tr>
	524	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	525	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	526	</tr>
	527
	528	<tr>
	529	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	530	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	531	</tr>
	532
	533	<tr>
	534	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	535	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	536	</tr>
	537
	538	<tr>
	539	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	540	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	541	</tr>
	542
	543	<tr>
	544	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	545	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	546	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
547	</tr>
548
549	<tr>
550	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
551	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
552	</tr>
553
554	</table>
555
556	</div>
557
558	</div>
559
560	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
561
562	<div class=section>
563
564	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
565
566	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
567	syntax it will accept.</p>
568
569	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
570
571	</div>
572
573	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
574
575	<div class=section>
576
577	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
578
579	</div>
580
581	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
582
583	<div class=section>
584
585	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
586	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
587
588	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
589
590	<div class=section>
591
592	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
593	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
594	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
595
596	</div>
597
598	<h3>Server</h3>
599
600	<div class=section>
601
602	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
603	file.</p>
604
605	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
606	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
607
608	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
609
610	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
611	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
612	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
613
614	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
615
616	</div>
617
618	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
619
620	<div class=section>
621
622	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
623	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
624	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
625	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
626
627	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
628
629	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
630	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
631	7 and Opera 9.</p>
632
633	</div>
634
635	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
636
637	<div class=section>
638
639	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
640	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
641	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
642
643	</div>
644
645	</div>
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